Save our Healthcare
Free Our Health Care Now Online Petition
As Obama and his radical democratic congress attempts to destroy our nation and our healthcare, we want to do whatever it takes to combat the onslaught of his socialistic philosophy.
With that in mind, I am posting the link to the petition to save our healthcare and plan to leave it up for several days so concerned individuals will have the opportunity to sign it and become more educated on the drastic changes that Obama and the Democrats are proposing
Free Our Health Care Now Online Petition
As Obama and his radical democratic congress attempts to destroy our nation and our healthcare, we want to do whatever it takes to combat the onslaught of his socialistic philosophy.
With that in mind, I am posting the link to the petition to save our healthcare and plan to leave it up for several days so concerned individuals will have the opportunity to sign it and become more educated on the drastic changes that Obama and the Democrats are proposing
Free Our Health Care Now Online Petition
Labels: healthcare, Obama
posted by Anonymous at 5:30 AM
11 Comments:
Yes, let's all follow the advice of a seriously "radical" right-wing nutcase who believes in creationism, home schooling and unlimited incomes for medical doctors.
I am not much of an Obama fan, but he seems to really be getting under your skin and watching you go totally bonkers may be worth a few years of Pres Hussein.
Speaking of nutcases, if I were anon 9:58, I'd take a serious look in the mirror.
I have been following this blog for a year or more and whoever this is must really have a personal vendetta against HB and sounds like they really have a problem with any view other than their own.
Get over the creation issue. You cannot prove it didn't happen that way any more than HB can prove it did.
It comes down to faith and where it is placed.
I know it is hard, but why don't you actually address the topic.
Obama's plan is costing us a fortune and will bankrupt the nation and our kids and grandkids.
It has to be stopped!!!
Meanwhile, MILLIONS of Americans do not have access to affordable comprehensive healthcare.
Our area HERE is being hit hard with the lack of available, affordable healthcare.
Do I think healthcare should be carried entirely by the Government, no I do not.
But do I think our current system is working, I definately DO NOT think so.
If it were, I would not have a job. ( I would love nothing more than to not have a job helping to provide healthcare to the medically indigent)
HB, your hospital continues to provide excellent support to the medically indigent patients of the Family Health Center, and we could NOT do it with out the support of FMH, transversely, how could FMH cope with the increasing large number of medically unindured whom you KNOW will end up in your ER everytime they have a cold or run out of BP meds?
Christopher Drake
Chief Operations Officer
Family Health Centers of Clark, Floyd and Harrison Counties
How many of the indigent do you see continue to smoke, have cell phones and many have cable TV.
1 pack of cig/day is about $4.50. Multiply by 30 days and you get 135 dollars which could certainly pay for routine visits and medicine.
Medicaid patients have insurance and they are the worst abusers of the ER.
Offering more goverment sponsored healthcare without personal responsibility is not the answer.
There are much better ways to fix the system without 1.6 trillion dollars more of debt.
Healthcare is NOT a right even though you liberals think it should be
Mr. Drake, you have a biased view of the system and only see a very small percentage of the overall patient base.
The other 90% of us like our system and shouldn't have to change for the few you see.
There are better ways to help them without destroying the best healthcare system in the world
I know an appreciation of irony is a struggle for some, but I find it amazingly funny when the principles shown in an anti-Obama signature drive so closely resemble the principles President Obama himself laid out for health care reform.
I think this petition might be a ruse from some very smart Democrats.
well if Obama would actually follow his own advice it would help. But the plan they are working towards is nothing like what was originally stated by Obama.
He made fun of McCain for considering taxing the benefits, but it is still in their consideration
For those who are interested in a serious discussion of the heath care bill that has been introduced in the House Ways & Means Committee, here is a link to the text of the bill:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/HRdraft1xml.pdf
I would note the following provision on page 16 in particular:
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.
(B) DEPENDENT COVERAGE PERMITTED.—Subparagraph (A) shall not affect the subsequent enrollment of a dependent of an individual who is covered as of such first day.
In other words...if you don't already have a private health insurance policy, you cannot buy one after this bill becomes law. The only option for you is the government option. I guess Obama's promise that you can keep your health insurance if you like it wasn't a complete lie...you can keep it, but you can't change it. And when your insurance company goes out of business because it cannot generate new business opportunities, you will be on the government plan.
The bill is intended to do one thing: to vest power in the federal government. Because it is about power and not about health care, the results of the bill will be devastating.
The bottom line is that this bill must be stopped. Is the healthcare system perfect? No, and it probably will never be. It can be improved. But this bill is not the solution to the problems.
In other words...if you don't already have a private health insurance policy, you cannot buy one after this bill becomes law. The only option for you is the government option.
That isn't what the passage says. The PDF linked lays out the basic guidelines for what will be considered a qualifying health plan.
If an existing health plan does not meet those guidelines but people are already enrolled, those enrolled and their dependents can continue to participate in it if they wish. The plan will be grandfathered in. The insurer, however, cannot enroll any new individuals in a plan that doesn't meet qualifying guidelines.
Enrollment in plans that do qualify, however, will not be limited, whether private or public.
It's just setting basic guidelines for health plans and does not mandate enrollment in a public health plan at all.
Yes, we see smokers at our clinics, however, they are not the majority of the patient load we see, and they do not represent the "sickest" of the patients we see.
(truth be told, the mobidly obese take that honor)
In regards to the medicaid/ medicare patients abusing the ER, we see them as well, as less and less private practitioners are able to take on more government subsidized patients (slow reimbursment process, low reimbursment, etc)
Am I biased, yes I am, are our clients the minority, maybe, for now.
In our Clark County Location alone we are adding an average of 22 new patients per WEEK since January 1st, and losing only maybe 1 patient per month for gaining private insurance.
When the medically indigent are not able to obtain quality healthcare, we all pay for it. When hospitals have to write of services rendeered to this demographic, it is reflected in how much insured persons are paying for the same services.
As more and more people become uninsured or underinsured, and hosptials have no choice but to raise fees, we get higher insurance premiums, higher deductables, and higher co-pays.
To think that we do not all ready have a social systems of healthcare is dangerous, hospitals and insurance companies WILL get their money for services rendered, but they have to in order to stay in business, only thing about is it is not controlled by any oversight now.
The fact is federally qualified health centers and community health centers have the ability to significantly reduce the number of indigent patients seeking care at the ER, as well as warding of critical illness through preventative care and intervention.
Bluegill,
If a plan cannot add new members, it will cease to exist at some point. That fact is very clear.
People will therefore be forced into other plans but most likely the government plan.
I run a business and cost is the issue. Private insurers will not be able to compete with the government plan when they make the rules.
Get a clue and admit you're wrong. But seeing your previous postings, your ego wouldn't allow that
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